World War 2 Timeline by Phoebe

By phoeberachelle

  • Adolf Hitler seizes power in Germany.

  • Dachau

    Dachau, the first concentration camp, is established in Germany. By 1945, over 1000 camps will be established.

  • Joseph Stalin (Soviet Leader) begins a purge of Red Army generals.

  • In Germany, legislation is passed making the Nazi party the only legal political, party.

  • Hitler assumed the presidency of Germany when Hindenburg dues and thus gains full control of the government

  • Hitler violates the TOV by introducing military conscription.

  • Hitler revels war-plans during Hoss Bach Conference.

  • German military mobilizes

  • The Night of Broken Glass.

    A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.

  • Beginning of WW2

  • Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

  • Nazis and Soviets divide Poland up.

  • Assassination attempt of Hitler fails.

  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

  • ) Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Norway surrenders to Nazis. Also, Italy declares war on Britain and France.

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Greece surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Sinking of the British ship by Good by the Bismarck

  • Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy

  • Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies.

  • Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends.

  • Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France

  • First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.

  • Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • End of WW2

  • Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.